Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series - Product Overview

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Catalyst 4500 Series Switch, Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide - Cisco IOS XE 3.9.xE and IOS 15.2(5)Ex
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Product Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the Catalyst 4500 series switches and includes the following major
sections:
• Layer 2 Software Features, page 1-1
• Layer 3 Software Features, page 1-13
• Management Features, page 1-23
• Security Features, page 1-33
Layer 2 Software Features
The following subsections describe the key Layer 2 switching software features on the switch:
• 802.1Q Tunneling, VLAN Mapping, and Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling, page 1-2
• Cisco IOS Auto Smartport Macros, page 1-2
• Cisco Discovery Protocol, page 1-2
• Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP) server, page 1-3
• EtherChannel Bundles, page 1-3
• Ethernet CFM, page 1-3
• Ethernet OAM Protocol, page 1-3
• Flex Links and MAC Address-Table Move Update, page 1-3
• Flexible NetFlow (Supervisor Engine 7-E, 7L-E, and 8-E only), page 1-4
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Snooping, page 1-4
• IPv6 Multicast BSR and BSR Scoped Zone Support, page 1-5
• IPv6 Multicast Listen Discovery (MLD) and Multicast Listen Discovery Snooping, page 1-6
• Jumbo Frames, page 1-6
• Link Aggregation Control Protocol, page 1-7
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol, page 1-7
• Link State Tracking, page 1-8
• Location Service, page 1-8
• Multiple Spanning Tree, page 1-8